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Re: How Do I Display The Word Visited On A Link

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Apr 12, 2006 1:50AM

On 12/04/06, Kynn Bartlett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Alternately, something like this:
>
> <a href="url">link text<span class="vnote">visited</span></a>
>
> And these CSS rules:
>
> a:link .vnote { display: none; }
> a:visited .vnote { display: inline; }
>
> This should work with most assistive technologies and all modern
> browsers that support CSS. It won't work for lynx, though.

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that...? That's a nice bit of lateral
thinking, Kynn. Sometime's one can get too bogged down in the specs to
see the more-widely-supported solution...

Regards,

Tim